An inquiry into child sexual exploitation is to be held to assess improvements in protecting youngsters since the Rochdale grooming case. Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd announced
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A former scout leader has been jailed for 11 years for sexually abusing five children at different times over a 15-year period. Colin Finnegan of Lurgan, County Armagh, was found
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Sexual violence towards children and young people living in gang-affected areas is often seen as normal and inevitable, according to ground-breaking research carried out by the University of Bedfordshire, published
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This Command Paper is published in response to the Home Affairs Committee’s Second Report of Session 2013-14 entitled: ‘Child Sexual Exploitation and the response to localised grooming’: HC68-1 (incorporating HC182,
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All children have the right to be protected from violence, exploitation and abuse. Yet, millions of children worldwide from all socio-economic backgrounds, across all ages, religions and cultures suffer violence,
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The chief executive of The College of Social Work, Annie Hudson, has said a number of tell-tale signs were missed in the case of Hamzah Khan. A serious case review
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The death of a four-year-old boy whose mummified body was found in a cot nearly two years after he was starved by his mother was not a “predictable event”, a
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As the Rochdale horror revealed, we need to overhaul how we care for our most troubled children, By Edward Timpson Next month will mark the first anniversary of the sentencing
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